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ALLOUEZ - A corrections officer was seriously burned Monday morning in an attack by an inmate at the Green Bay Correctional Institution.

Authorities said an inmate threw a pot of scalding water at the employee's face. The employee is being treated at Columbia St. Mary's Regional Burn Center in Milwaukee, according to the Brown County Sheriff's officials said.

The attack injured an inmate who had been standing near the victim. Sheriff's officials said the inmate was being treated at the prison for burns to his back.

The inmate and the employee were working in the prison kitchen during breakfast when the attack happened about 7:35 a.m., according to a corrections officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak with the media.

The officer said the prison was placed on lockdown.

Authorities have not released the name of the victims or their attacker.

In late June, two Green Bay Correctional Institution workers were stabbed and beaten by an inmate. A third was injured while trying to break up the fight.

Officials said that inmate, Francisco Flores-Rocha, 34, died by suicide days after the attack. He had been awaiting deportation while serving a 20-year sentence for attempted murder in connection with a near-fatal May 2004 shooting in Racine.